I was a bit unprepared for today, as today’s tale was supposed to run in the Chronicle. I only found out it didn’t when I looked and saw it wasn’t there. So today’s tale is from my notes. It happened about two years ago, when our oldest was only three and our youngest was only 1. […]

As some of you know, I currently wear three hats: game designer, writer, and software developer. Of these three, it’s the third job that causes me the most stress. It’s not that I don’t enjoy writing software. I do. There are, however, occasional problems that can really ramp up the old blood pressure – tracking down elusive […]

The kids started something called “drama camp” today. “Drama camp” is not a real camp. It’s a couple hours a day of kids playing around. We thought they’d enjoy it – and so did they. Things changed a bit a few weeks back, though. That’s when they saw a friend of theirs at the end […]

So the other evening, my youngest tapped my leg as I was getting his toothbrush for him. “Daddy? What’s your name?” “Daddy” “Oh. What’s Carter’s name?” Carter is a friend of theirs. Even if he wasn’t, I knew the answer to that question. “Carter.” “No, no, no!” he yelled. “There are two Carters! Two!” “Oh, okay. […]

Both of my kids are what you’d call “nice.” They try not to do mean things. If they see that another kid is hurt, they go check on him or her. One even stopped in the middle of a soccer game to check on one of his opponents that had tripped. When they see that […]

We ate lunch at Smokey Bones the other day. It’s a pretty good lunch place, but it’s filled with TV’s. Regardless of where you sit, you can see at least four different TVs. Usually, each of these is tuned to a different station. Adults can tune out the distractions easily enough, but it’s tough for a […]

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The other day as we were driving back from church, our youngest called to me from the back seat. “Daddy,” “Yes?” “Today would be a bad day to die.” His mom and I looked at each other. “Yes,” I said. “Yes it would be.” She agreed with me. I believe this may now top my […]

Something about our trip to Texas left the boys unsettled. The night after we were back in our own house, our oldest woke us up in the middle of the night because he was having nightmares. We settled him down and took him back to bed. Two hours later he was back, and he returned […]

When I was a kid, one of my most commonplace crimes was tilting my chair. I did it all the time, and got in trouble all the time – which didn’t dissuade me at all. To me, it was a question of mastering the difficult art of balancing on the back two legs of a […]